Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion Events & Conferences

Evangelical Studies Program
Evangelicalism and Missions
Studies in the History of the Spread of the Gospel

October 2-4, 2024
Virtual Conference
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About The Conference

Evangelical missions have been a major phenomenon of the modern world. Missionaries have traveled from land to land supported by a mass public at home. They have translated scripture, taught hymns and shared testimonies, often changing their methods of spreading the gospel and their understanding of the task in the process. This conference brings together scholars of different times and places in order to build up a fuller picture of missions by a series of illuminating case studies.

The Evangelicalism and Missions conference, presented by the Evangelical Studies Program at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, will focus on studies in the history of the spread of the Gospel.

The conference will be delivered virtually. Registration is required.

October 2nd

8:00am
Introductory Session
8:30am
Dana L. Robert (Boston University)
“To the Pious and Benevolent”: Missionary Appeals and the Making of Anglo-American Evangelicalism
9:30am
Break
9:45am
Mark Smith (Kellogg College, Oxford)
William Wilberforce and the Missionary Enterprise
10:45am
Break
11:00am
Paul Glen Grant (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Imagined Heathen Communities: The Nineteenth-Century Basel Mission and its Homefront

October 3rd

8:00am
Michael Gladwin (Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia)
Bibles for the Pacific: Missionary Strategies of the Australian Bible Society (BFBS), 1817–1960
9:00am
Boone Aldridge (Wycliffe Bible Translators)
The Challenges of Translation: The Wycliffe Bible Translators and a New Evangelical Paradigm
10:00am
Break
10:15am
Aminta Arrington (John Brown University)
A Christianity Sung and Shared: The Lisu of Southwest China and the Mission Encounter
11:15am
Karl Dahlfred (Chiang Mai Theological Seminary, Thailand)
Mission Drift: How the American Presbyterian Mission in Thailand Modified its Evangelical Heritage

October 4th

8:00am
Matt Snowden (Pastor of First Baptist Church, Waco)
Worship
8:15am
Heather J. Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania)
The “Who” and the “How” of the Mission: The Evangelical Impulse in Egypt, 1860-1960
9:15am
Break
9:30am
Brian Stanley (University of Edinburgh)
“The ‘Heathen' in Protestant Missionary Vocabulary”

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10:30am
Break
10:45am
Amos Chewachong (Newport-on-Tay, Scotland)
Voices Across Borders: The Power of Nigerian Pentecostal Testimonies in Cameroon
11:45am
Concluding Session
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